Looks like ol' HERC spoke too soon last time out - this is his final post covering the K-Tel albums from 1976. Featuring 20 ORIGINAL HITS by 20 ORIGINAL STARS, Right On features Kerry Ciardelli in the commercial as well as both the front and back covers of the album. There's a tiny little caption on the back cover, beneath the Nadia's Theme album image and the Made & Printed in U.S.A. declaration. It says our covergirl Miss Kerry is "lead vocalist, FREE FALL".
As part of his efforts to get organized and know what lies within the Audio Archives here at The Hideaway, HERC recently catalogued his collection of 45s. Little did he know he still had over 200 of them and now he can tell at a glance what he has. Of the twenty songs on Right On, HERC has just two of them on 45s:
Given that 75% of the songs on Right On were Top 10 hits, it should produce a fairly high score on the K-tel Scale. A couple of songs are from 1973, some from 1974 and 1975 with the majority being from 1976. If HERC had to guess, he'd guess that this album came out in the later part of 1976, between October and December. One of the surprises in researching the music on Right On was finding out "Nadia's Theme" was a #1 hit on Chicago's WLS, the very same station HERC was listening to at the time. Perhaps he blocked it out but he doesn't remember hearing it that much on the radio during its chart run of 22 weeks in Oct-Dec 1976. Having heard that song again recently, HERC can say with all confidence that he doesn't have to hear it again for another 30 years.
With a K-tel Scale score of 34.25, Right On enters the Top 10 chart at Number Three. Having five songs with no crossover success on other charts handicapped the score a bit. Half of the album's twenty tracks did manage to hit the Top 25 on the Adult Contemporary chart though.
Eleven of the tracks migrated over to the Canadian version of Right On which featured a less concentrated 60% Top 10 hit ratio. Only two songs failed to make the US Top 40 while another only registered on the Adult Contemporary Top 40 - it came in at #43 on the Pop chart. Nevertheless, the Canadian configuration of Right On scored just over 29 on the U.S. biased K-tel Scale barely missing the K-Tel Kollection Top 10.
Given that 75% of the songs on Right On were Top 10 hits, it should produce a fairly high score on the K-tel Scale. A couple of songs are from 1973, some from 1974 and 1975 with the majority being from 1976. If HERC had to guess, he'd guess that this album came out in the later part of 1976, between October and December. One of the surprises in researching the music on Right On was finding out "Nadia's Theme" was a #1 hit on Chicago's WLS, the very same station HERC was listening to at the time. Perhaps he blocked it out but he doesn't remember hearing it that much on the radio during its chart run of 22 weeks in Oct-Dec 1976. Having heard that song again recently, HERC can say with all confidence that he doesn't have to hear it again for another 30 years.
RIGHT ON [1976]
| K-tel Scale: |
34.25
| |||||
| Top 40 chart peaks | |||||||
| Pop | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
| The Boys Are Back In Town | Thin Lizzy | 12 | 10 | 2 | |||
| Magic Man | Heart | 9 | 7 | 7 | |||
| You Are The Woman | Firefall | 9 | 6 | 8 | 2 | ||
| Strange Magic | Electric Light Orchestra | 14 | 24 | 14 | 33 | ||
| Nadia's Theme (The Young And The Restless) | Berry DeVorzon & Perry Botkin, Jr. | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Kiss And Say Goodbye | The Manhattans | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 23 | |
| Saturday Night | Bay City Rollers | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Love Machine (Part 1) | The Miracles | 1 | 5 | 20 | 1 | 16 | |
| Love Hangover | Diana Ross | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 2 |
| You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine | Lou Rawls | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Daniel | Elton John | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Just Be Close To You | Commodores | 7 | 1 | 11 | 19 | ||
| One Man Woman/One Woman Man | Paul Anka with Odia Coates | 7 | 5 | 7 | 10 | ||
| I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do | ABBA | 15 | 8 | 19 | |||
| You Are My Starship | Norman Connors | 27 | 4 | 26 | 23 | ||
| The Cisco Kid | War | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | ||
| All By Myself | Eric Carmen | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Magic | Pilot | 5 | 5 | 2 | |||
| Did You Boogie (With Your Baby) | Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids | 29 | 25 | 33 | |||
| Dazz | Brick | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | |
With a K-tel Scale score of 34.25, Right On enters the Top 10 chart at Number Three. Having five songs with no crossover success on other charts handicapped the score a bit. Half of the album's twenty tracks did manage to hit the Top 25 on the Adult Contemporary chart though.
Eleven of the tracks migrated over to the Canadian version of Right On which featured a less concentrated 60% Top 10 hit ratio. Only two songs failed to make the US Top 40 while another only registered on the Adult Contemporary Top 40 - it came in at #43 on the Pop chart. Nevertheless, the Canadian configuration of Right On scored just over 29 on the U.S. biased K-tel Scale barely missing the K-Tel Kollection Top 10.
RIGHT ON [1976]
| K-tel Scale: |
29.05
| |||||
| Top 40 chart peaks | |||||||
| Pop | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
| (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty | KC & The Sunshine Band | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| I'd Really Love To See You Tonight | England Dan & John Ford Coley | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||
| You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine | Lou Rawls | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Strange Magic | Electric Light Orchestra | 14 | 24 | 14 | 33 | ||
| Getaway | Earth, WInd & Fire | 12 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 23 | |
| The Cisco Kid | War | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | ||
| I Got To Know | Starbuck | 11 | 40 | ||||
| Take It Or Leave It | Moxy | ||||||
| Magic Man | Heart | 9 | 7 | 7 | |||
| The Best Disco In Town | Ritchie Family | 17 | 12 | 1 | 18 | ||
| Daniel | Elton John | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Just Be Close To You | Commodores | 7 | 1 | 11 | 19 | ||
| She's Gone | Hall & Oates | 7 | 6 | 6 | 9 | ||
| Love Machine (Part 1) | The Miracles | 1 | 5 | 20 | 1 | 16 | |
| One Man Woman/One Woman Man | Paul Anka with Odia Coates | 7 | 5 | 7 | 10 | ||
| Who'd She Coo | Ohio Players | 18 | 1 | 35 | |||
| Did You Boogie (With Your Baby) | Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids | 29 | 25 | 33 | |||
| I Don't Beleive In Miracles | C.B. Victoria | ||||||
| Nadia's Theme (The Young And The Restless) | Berry DeVorzon & Perry Botkin, Jr. | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Love Hangover | Diana Ross | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 2 |
BONUS RESEARCH
As usual, the eight track tape has the album's playlist slightly rearranged to yield four equal programs. The length of each program is listed as 14:30 so the total length is 58:00. Using the listed length of the each single, HERC calculated how long an unedited tracklist would run and it turns out it would be 14:37 longer. That's fourteen and a half minutes, people.
* 8-track scans courtesy of the 8-Track Shack
This was the first wave of snapshots that came up in my Google search for Kerry Ciardelli. If that really was her, she's not done too badly for herself.
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